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St Malachy’s College is the oldest Catholic Boys’ Grammar School in the Diocese of Down and Connor. It works to develop strong and positive links with the local community and with its contributory primary schools. The College enjoys an excellent reputation based on an outstanding pastoral care system and is a community with a passionate commitment to learning.
Finance and Operations Manager
The Finance & Operations Manager will play a key role in the fiscal management of the College and is directly responsible to the Director of Finance & Support Services for the management of the financial affairs, daily operations, facility management, buildings and grounds, administration and personnel management of the College.
Essential Criteria:
• Fully qualified accountant (member of a CCAB body), with at least two years post qualification experience providing
a good all-round, practical accountancy experience, including preparation of management and statutory accounts,
cashflows and budgetary analyses;
• Wide administrative and/or business experience in a medium sized organisation (minimum 3 years);
• High level of communication and organisational skills;
• Qualities of leadership, initiative and management of human resources;
• Excellent IT skills, including experience of using accounting packages and Microsoft Excel at an advanced level;
• Able to work as the senior element of a team, managing and delegating appropriately as required;
• Excellent planning and organisational skills.
Desirable Criteria:
• Administration experience of Payroll;
• Experienced in management of staff and employment legislation etc.;
• Experienced in financial management within an educational setting;
• Awareness of the requirements of GDPR within an administrative function;
• Previous experience of use of C2k system.Remuneration
The salary range for this position is £56,730 to £60,208 (i.e. NJC Pt 45 - 48).
The Board of Governers of St. Malachy's College, 36 Antrim Road, Belfast BT15 2AE invites applications for the above named post. Application forms for this post, along with any relevant information may be downloaded from the website now. Alternatively, this can be obtained from the Monitoring Officer in the College.
Deadline for receipt of applications is Monday 11 May 2026 at 3.30pm
2010 - present
2010 - present




